Browsing Economics (Theses and Dissertations) by Title
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Carbon energy taxation and revenue recycling : an applied general equilibrium analysis for the Irish economy
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Economics, 2007)The rapid changing of the climate globally is a pressing problem. In Ireland, the average annual temperature has increased by 0.5 degrees Celsius over the course of the twentieth century, most significantly in the last ... -
Characterisation of equilibrium in oligopoly with applications to trade and taxation
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Economics, 2006)This thesis is organized into four independent chapters. Chapter 1 is divided into two parts: part one is concerned with the characterization of optimal penal codes in presence of a n period detection lag, where n can be ... -
Chinese state-owned enterprises
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Economics, 2005)The focus of this thesis is an empirical analysis of the process of operational reform and restructuring in Chinese state-owned enterprises, with a view to examining associated effects on performance, as well as the ... -
Choices, constraints and welfare in rural Peru
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Economics, 2006)This thesis is a study of farm household choices, constraints and welfare in rural Peru, for 1994. The study incorporates literature reviews of farm household models and the main results concerning off-farm participation ... -
Consolidated Foreign Wealth of Nations: Initial steps and novel estimates
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Social Sciences & Philosophy. Discipline of Economics, 2023)This thesis is made of three essays in International Macroeconomics. The central question these essays focus on is how to assess the international exposure of countries. The conventional approach uses the residence of the ... -
Contestability and European Community Air Transport Policy : Lessons from the US
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Downward nominal wage rigidity and macroeconomic adjustment in a monetary union
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Economics, 2014)The core of this thesis consists of three papers. Although independent, a common theme running through the papers is the macroeconomic adjustment of an open economy in a monetary union. In particular, we look at how ... -
Economic adjustments to globalisation in a small open economy
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Economics, 2012)This thesis is a collection of three separate essays. We examine how a small open economy adjusts to a number of challenges posed by globalisation. We also analyse the effect of employment constraints on an economy's ability ... -
Economic implications of the Doha development agenda for China
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Economics, 2009)The aim of my PhD thesis is to assess the consequences of possible Doha Round outcomes for China. The thesis is introduced in Chapter 1, which discusses the motivation for the thesis and outlines its structure. Chapter 2 ... -
Economics of the family : theory and applications in developing countries
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Economics, 2013)This thesis is a collection of three research papers on different aspects of the economics of the family in developing countries. The aim of this thesis is to investigate the power structures and bargaining processes between ... -
Economy-wide modelling focused on the agricultural and food sectors : an Irish case
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Economics, 2013)This thesis is a collection of four essays. The first one describes the construction of a Social Accounting Matrix (SAM) for Ireland for the year 2005. The SAM includes 55 activities, 55 commodities, two factors of production ... -
Electricity markets and renewables : emissions, costs and fuel diversity
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Economics, 2013)As energy consumption has risen steadily over the past century, so too have emissions, contributing to climate change. Energy consumption is a necessary aspect of economic growth - it is an input into the production of ... -
Empirical Essays in Economic Geography
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Social Sciences & Philosophy. Discipline of Economics, 2019)This thesis consists of three papers that belong to the field of Economic Geography. All three papers exploit spatial and temporal variation in variables in order to shed light on economic questions. The first paper provides ... -
Empirical essays in fiscal policy
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Economics, 2013)The core of this thesis consists of three chapters. In the first chapter we introduce fiscal policy of trading partners in the study of the effect of fiscal policy on the domestic growth rate. The effects of economic ... -
Empirical essays in international macroeconomics
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Economics, 2009)This thesis is composed of three essays. The first one examines cases in which there is a large shift in a country's net foreign asset position due to the re-valuation of its foreign assets and / or foreign liabilities. ... -
Empirical essays in international macroeconomics
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Economics, 2011)This thesis is composed of three essays. The first paper examines private credit growth in Europe between 1999 and 2007. The results highlight the importance of external liabilities in facilitating the credit boom. Although ... -
Environmental Behaviour and Decision Making - Evidence from Laboratory, Online and Natural Experiments
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Social Sciences & Philosophy. Discipline of Economics, 2022)Tackling climate change and keeping global temperatures from rising by more than 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels is one of the major and most challenging issues that our societies are facing. Households are among the ... -
Equity in Irish health care financing
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Economics, 2008)Equity is a central principle in Irish health policy and there is increasing political interest in altering the health financing structures in order to improve equity in the system. However, investigations of equity in ... -
Essays in applied microeconomics
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Social Sciences & Philosophy. Discipline of Economics, 2023)The first essay studies the effects of access to assisted reproductive technologies (ARTs) on fertility and labor market outcomes. Drawing on quasi-experimental variation in expected costs for ARTs and data from the German ... -
Essays in applied microeconomics : smart networks and behaviour of households and firms
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Economics, 2016)This dissertation explores a number of aspects related to the roll-out of network infrastructure. The focus is on the integration of electricity networks and ICT, and the interaction of these technologies with the behaviour ...
